Wonderful character actor has passed away. He suffered a fall back in 2013 during a play. Known today by younger generations for Harry Potter, some of us older people remember him from All Creatures Great and Small. I remember him doing some marvelous scenery chewing in an episode of The Saint tv show. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/a ... actor-dies

sepiatone wrote:Wonderful character actor has passed away. He suffered a fall back in 2013 during a play. Known today by younger generations for Harry Potter, some of us older people remember him from All Creatures Great and Small. I remember him doing some marvelous scenery chewing in an episode of The Saint tv show. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/a ... actor-dies" target="_blank

One of my favorite British actors. He portrayed Winston Churchill in more than one miniseries. His bombastic Siegfried on ALL CREATURES is a television classic.

One of our family's favorites! My wife and I were motoring along a gorgeous but treacherous Devon, England road a number of years back, a one and a half laner with very high hedgerows along the side. These roads are bad enough in a small car, but here comes a very large old open top 20's green automobile from the other direction, and who do you think was at the wheel?! It was Robert Hardy, with a huge smile on his face, and he was driving as if he owned the road!

R Michael Pyle wrote:One of our family's favorites! My wife and I were motoring along a gorgeous but treacherous Devon, England road a number of years back, a one and a half laner with very high hedgerows along the side. These roads are bad enough in a small car, but here comes a very large old open top 20's green automobile from the other direction, and who do you think was at the wheel?! It was Robert Hardy, with a huge smile on his face, and he was driving as if he owned the road!

I can see that.....

Hardy was possibly the only actor to have played both Churchill and FDR in several TV series.

R Michael Pyle wrote:One of our family's favorites! My wife and I were motoring along a gorgeous but treacherous Devon, England road a number of years back, a one and a half laner with very high hedgerows along the side. These roads are bad enough in a small car, but here comes a very large old open top 20's green automobile from the other direction, and who do you think was at the wheel?! It was Robert Hardy, with a huge smile on his face, and he was driving as if he owned the road!

What a wonderful story. He'll always be Cornelius Fudge to my students, but I love his Sir John Middleton in Sense and Sensibility, still my favorite screen adaptation of Austen. When he studied at Oxford, his professors included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis; no wonder he was so erudite in interviews! RIP.